Story Archive for May 2008
Friday, May 16
- Jumping the Last Hurdle
- Markets: Close of Friday, May 16
- Slow Going on Northbound Highway 101
- Santa Barbara Gays, Allies Celebrate Same-Sex Marriage Ruling
- Stepping Out
- Reyes Peak Hike
- Channel Islands Seabird Considered for Endangered Species List
Thursday, May 15
- News-Press Lays Off Another One
- Subpoena for UCSB Student Newspaper Photos Dropped
- Independent.com Wins the EPpy
- California Supreme Court Overturns Gay Marriage Ban
- Grand Theft Auto IV
- Warriors Speak Up
- City Council Task Force to Tackle Homelessness
- UCSB Scientist Co-Publishes Global Warming Study
- Companies Compete for Tajiguas Trash-to-Energy Contract
- No Oil Agreement With Exxon, Vandenberg Says
- State Cuts Could Hurt Santa Barbara Police Programs
- UCSB Names Women’s Basketball Coach; SBCC Names Track Coach
- A Spectator’s Guide to Sacramento’s Latest Budget Mess
- Ruling Vindicates S.B. Prosecutors, Judges
- David Horowitz Provokes Extreme Response with Anti-Arab Remarks
- County Supes Venture Toward Oil Tax
- For 3rd District Supervisor: Doreen Farr
- The Santa Barbara Symphony’s Final Performance at the Arlington
- Glam
- Dancing with Destiny
- Star-Studded Movie Screening
- Lions and Rattlers and Bears, Oh My!
- Kayaking Trips at Channel Islands National Park
- Shake, Snicker, and Doodle
- Let Go My Gelato
- 2008 Blue & Green Guide
- Renaud’s Pain au Chocolat
- Tom Jacobs
- Biting Dogs Don’t Bark
- This Week in History
- Camp Ronald McDonald
- Poet Laureate Charles Simic Shares His Latest Book
- Cuts Are a Self-Sabotaging Quick Fix
- Santa Barbara Music Club
- Eye-Popping Colors
- Reel Loud Film Fest Brings Live Music
- News to Yous
- Hello, Kitty
- Lit Moon Theatre At Home and Abroad
- Modern Dance Legend Mark Morris Returns to Santa Barbara
- Victory, presented by Santa Barbara Theatre.
- Give a Little
- Michael Bublé
- Cool & Cultured: Museums
- Infected Mushroom
- Scenes in the City
- A Guide to Bouldering Lingo
- Six Great Places to Get Outdoors
- From Muggle to Cacher in the Global Treasure Hunt Known as Geocaching
- Speed Racer
- Roman de Gare
- Beers Say ‘Can It’
- Albertsons Sizzling Santa Barbara Super Chef Cook-Off
- Pico Iyer’s New Book The Open Road Distills the Dalai Lama’s Teachings
- Pirate-y Peeps
- Kathleen Edwards Returns to Santa Barbara
- Quiz: What in the World?
- One Inch
- vol. 22, no. 122, May 15 - 22, 2008
- Living Page Photo
- Wheels & Waves
- Treading Lightly
- Money and Other Strangers
- 2008 Blue & Green Guide Listings
- Quote of the Week
- Mothering the Mothers
- Business
- County
- DRi Scrambles to Aid Myanmar, China
- Barbara Lebow’s New Play Tackles Iraq
- Victory for V
- Down With V
- Push Miramar Back
- Timing is All
- Sterilize the Purebreds
Wednesday, May 14
- Letter from Teamsters' Nicholas Caruso to News-Press Newsroom Employees
- African Dinosaurs on Display
- Green Hotels
- 3 Reasons to Travel Down the Rabbit Hole for SBMA’s Nights
- Emmanuel Jal
- Question: ‘Who is Mason Street named after?’
- Diavolo
- Carpinteria High Grad Tyler Dumm to Be Inducted into Santa Barbara’s Sports Hall of Fame
Tuesday, May 13
- Used Computer Sales Up
- UCSB Closes in on Women’s Basketball Coach
- Spitting Nickels
- Drunk Driver Sentenced to Three Years
- Crispin Leather Closes
- Santa Barbara International Film Festival Hires Two
- From I.V., on Mother’s Day
Monday, May 12
Sunday, May 11
- Arraignments Delayed for Murder Suspects
- Goleta Honors Its Best and Brightest
- UCSB to Reap Benefits of Stem Cell Grant
- How to Make Money in Real Estate
- Paper Dolls
- Triple Bottom Line
Saturday, May 10
- State Could Give Jail Funding
- MacKinnon Gets Endorsements from DA, Sheriffs Association
- Goleta Man Breaks Leg in 101 Motorbike Accident
- Help with Assisted Living
- City Council Approves New Public Works Director
- Nuns Leaving Town
Friday, May 9
- Reclaiming the Erotic
- Markets: Close of Friday, May 9
- Where Your Heart Ends
- Septic to Sewer, Sewer to Lawsuit?
- Cat Training
- A Dance of Hope
- Feeling Lucky?
- She Was Their Guest
- Behind the Scenes @ Independent.com, Take One
- “Suspicious” Fire Engulfs Orcutt Building
- Jeschke Headed to Trial
- Sierra Club Endorses Farr in 3rd District Race
Thursday, May 8
- Sanchez Press Conference on Arrests
- Assassin’s Creed
- Cheaper Energy From Beyond Edison?
- New SB Condo Breed Inches Toward Reality
- School District’s Eric Smith Helms CASBO
- Supes Pass Spay/Neuter Ball Back to Staff
- Bawling for Dollars
- Judge Joe Lodge Dies
- Up Against the Backlash
- Turtle Island Quartet Plays Coltrane in Ventura
- Filmmaker Bill Carter Documents the Human Face of War
- Awesome Art
- County
- KT Tunstall
- Harry Chanson 1913-2008
- In the Valley of the Dogs
- The Hidden Costs of Mountain Biking
- Omnium Gatherum
- 4.3 million
- Quiz: Mother’s Day
- Los Angeles Philharmonic
- vol. 22, no. 121, May 8 - 15, 2008
- 3rd District
- So You Think You Can Dance?
- Bob Mitchell Releases Once Upon a Fastball, a Novel about Baseball, History, and Life
- Iron Man
- Law and Disorder
- Mourning, presented by Eiko and Koma
- A Taste of Hotel Café Helps Bid SOhO’s Anna Zamir a Fond Farewell
- The Chris, Julie, and Malakye Potter-Palooza
- Baby Mama
- Pangea Day
- Mary Heebner’s Hamlet
- Give a Little
- Yo-Ho, Yo-Ho! A Pirate’s Life for Me!
- Hop on the LifeCycle
- This Week in History
- Jacques Heim Brings L.A.-Based Diavolo to Santa Barbara
- Environment
- Education
- Four and a Half Historical Fictions
- Business
- Going Post-Voicemail
- Horse Show
- The Ballad of Taco and Ono
- Question: ‘Who was the mayor of Santa Barbara during World War II?’
- Silver Foliage Turns a Humdrum Bed into a Star
- Duran Duran
- Living Page Photo
- U.S. Military Measures Climate Change
- Numbers and Orchestral Maneuvers
- Another Wine Futures
- News to Yous
- Running to Wine Fun
- John Fogerty
- Five Candidates Vie for the County’s Hottest Supervisorial Seat
- Wheels of Hope
- Santa Barbaran Cycles and Surfs for Charity
- 5 Reasons to See Beauty and the Beast at SBHS
- Leslie Lehr’s New Book on Life After Marriage
- Photographer Joel Meyerowitz and His 9/11 Archive, Aftermath
- An Interview with Willie Brown
- Warren Schultheis: Vector/No Vector
- You’d Be Remiss to Miss Mimosa
- S.B. Fair & Expo’s Delicious Delights
- Santa Barbara Cyclist Adam Duvendeck Sets His Sights on the Summer Olympics
- Open Season
- Quote of the Week
- Defenders: The Anti-Government
- Reviewer vs. Rushdie
- Not So Belle
- Can the Happy Talk
- Tillers vs. Toilers
- Smyser’s Record: Check
- Senior Living Revisited
- Grief and Hope
Wednesday, May 7
- Portishead
- Seven Arrests in July Stabbing Death
- Santa Barbara Spends to Save Steelhead
- School Health Offices Could Close Early Next Year
Tuesday, May 6
- Zap Goes the Bombot
- Montecito Debates Rick Caruso’s Miramar Remodel
- News-Press, Indy Settle Lawsuit
- Literary, Liberal, Affordable Santa Barbara
Monday, May 5
- Trails Council Hosts Multi-Use Trails Conference
- Absentee Ballots Hit Mailboxes
- Avril Lavigne Postpones Tuesday Bowl Show
- Reclaiming Nature For Kids
- Thought Provoking Films
- Santa Barbara Celebrates Israel at 60
- What Is Best for Bishop Ranch?
Sunday, May 4
- San Marcos High Grad Qualifies for Beijing Olympics
- Big Bounty on Billfish
- Why Mountain Bikes Need Regulating
- Ground Breaking Construction at Live Oak
- Upper Manzana Creek Trail
- Slain DA Investigator Remembered as Upstanding, Hardworking
- Lower Manzana Creek Trail
- Hell's Half Acre & Beyond
- White Rock Trail
- Camuesa Connector Day Hike
- Munch Canyon
- Arroyo Burro Backside
- East Pinery Loop
- Devil's Canyon Loop
- East Pinery Out n’ Back
- Red Rock Loop
- Matias Potrero
- Ranger Peak Loop
- Fir Canyon & Jeepway
- Figueroa Mountain Lookout
- Zaca Peak overlook
- Nineteen Oaks Via Santa Cruz Trail
- Lower Oso Kid's Hike
- Aliso Canyon Trail
- Snyder Trail
Saturday, May 3
- Moderate Injuries Result From Quadruple Car Accident on 154
- Rape Whistles for Homeless Women
- In-Flight Weirdness
- Green Green Green
- Magic Mushrooms, Fantastic Fungi
- Bluffs on the Block
- San Antonio Creek Trail
- Roths Revisited
- Toro Canyon
- Polo Club Trail
- Greenwell Trail
- Valley Club Loop
- Ennisbrook
- Elings Park Hikes
- Ellwood Monarch Groves
- Students Observe Holocaust Remembrance Day
- West Campus Loop
- Through-the-Roof Burglary Nabs $14,000 in Carp
- Lake Los Carneros
- UCSB Researchers Focus on Animal-to-Human Disease Shifts
- Catway Road
- Figueroa Mountain Loop Drive
- Subsidized. Affordable. Beautiful?
Friday, May 2
- Holocaust Survivors Remember
- UPDATED: Highway 154 Head-On Kills DA Investigator
- Markets: Close of Friday, May 2
- Families Can Get Fit at Mother’s Day Walk-Run
- Sheriff Launches New Sex Offender Locater Service
- Staying Quiet to Break Silence
- Wildlife Deserve a “Brake”
- Henry Brant (1913-2008)
- Laborers Rally for Rights at UCSB
- Fire Season—It’s Coming
- UPDATED: Who’s the Queen of the May?
Thursday, May 1
- News-Press Axes Ten
- North County Spill Contained, Fire Department Reports
- Wanting Hands
- Fourth District Supe Candidate Gets SEIU Endorsement
- School Board Budget Update
- Layoffs at the Santa Barbara News-Press
- A Croc of Shoe
- Developers Set Sights on Bishop Ranch
- Prop 98 Targets Mobile Homes
- Rincon Vote Awash in Fraud Allegations
- County Axes Senior Care
- Humanitarian Greg Mortenson and Economist Jeffrey Sachs Chat with Howard Schiffer
- Celestial Fantasy Brings Glen Phillips Full Circle
- Ojai’s 9th Annual Storytelling Festival
- 3 Reasons to Get Your Geek On at Worldwide Free Comic Book Day
- County
- Environment
- Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
- The Visitor
- Spencer the Gardener
- $60,000
- Quiz: Fashion Forward
- Mirror, Mirror on the Web
- Solutions for Youth
- Break! The Urban Funk Spectacular
- Pretty Painting
- This Week in History
- Helping the Hungry
- Give a Little
- Family Fun Night
- Erotic Intelligence
- s’COOL Food Says Feed Your Children Well
- Man Man
- Marmalade Puts the Big in Brunch
- A Chat with Haaz Sleiman, Star of Tom McCarthy’s The Visitor
- Justine Sutton
- Lila Downs Finds Herself
- Surf Legend Gerry Lopez to Speak at UCSB
- Robert Black
- Quote of the Week
- vol. 22, no. 120, May 1 - 8, 2008
- David Parsons Defends Accessibility
- Falafel! Falafel!
- Take Back the Nightlife
- Law and Disorder
- Philharmonic Convergence
- A Rundown of San Marcos High’s Sports Highlights, from Books to Brawlers
- No Dogs Need Apply
- Spiritualized
- Coachella ’08 Brings Old Favorites, Fresh Faces to Triple-Digit Indio Desert
- Jacob Snyder 1980-2008
- That’s Show Biz
- Health
- Education
- Sacred Music with Snatam Kaur
- Media
- Politics
- Catching Up with Two Sheds’ Better Half, Caitlin Gutenberger
- KT Tunstall Talks Touring, Posing, and Living the Dream
- Australian Insect Sucks the Life Out of Plants
- City
- The Presidio at Three Pickles
- Community, an exhibition of documentary photography by Rod Rolle.
- News to Yous
- On Sacred Ground: New Work by Bobbi Bennett.
- Eyes of Spring at Carpinteria’s Galerie Eye
- The Natural World
- Why the Biggest Acts Love to Play in Our Backyard
- Santa Barbara Wine Futures at the Wine Cask
- Drummer Stanton Moore Puts Music in Parentheses
- Salman Rushdie to Discuss Enchantment
- Sterilize the Mixed Breeds
- Guest Worker Farce
- Height Makes Right
- Invest in Arts
- Missing Voices
- Greasy Guilt
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